The Hemsley Sisters Are on a Mission to Cure Your Cooking Anxiety

It's hard not to instantly fall in love with sisters Melissa and Jasmine Hemsley. They're absolutely stunning, hilarious, and they cook food that tastes as good as it makes your body feel.

"Mom is Filipino and our dad is British military," Jasmine told ELLE.com. "We grew up on army barracks in England and Germany, and we ate lots of adventurous foods—lots of vegetables, lots of quality meat. We celebrated leftovers. We made things and turned them into something else."

"All the leftover things would go into a stock and be made into a big soup. That was our Sunday thing—a big soup. It was warm, grounding, nourishing food. No restaurants," Melissa said.

This tradition set the stage for the sisters' foodie futures—and careers:

HEMSLEY + HEMSLEY is for people (including many of us at ELLE.com, and maybe you, too) who want to live healthier lives, but aren't quite sure where to be begin. Through their highly successful blog and recently released cookbook, the sisters are quickly gaining a cult following of fashion industry insiders and celebs who are adopting their nutrient-filled, easy-to-make, feel-good foods.

Their favorite recipes for cooking newbies?

Melissa loves the sesame chicken cucumber noodles and Jasmine is into the cauliflower mash.

"This is everyday cooking," Melissa said of their recipes. "We spend our days creating certain [recipes] for people who are on tour and the like, and when we come back home we also don't want to cook. We also don't want to wash up. We encourage people to use their freezers. We say, if you're going to make our shepard's pie or fish pie, do a double load, put it in the freezer, and next week, pop it right in the oven."

"And it gets more delicious and actually more broken down the longer it's in the fridge," Jasmine agreed. "It doesn't look as lovely and fluffy, but it tastes like a completely different meal. And you can say you made it yourself."

The sisters acknowledge that diving head first into healthy eating—and especially healthy cooking—isn't easy.

"I know people when they first starting eating [our food], they'd look at it and say, "Ugh, what is that?" In their heads, it didn't come in fancy packaging, so God knows what it is," Jasmine admitted.

"Like, if it doesn't look like a sandwich…" Melissa added.

"Tons of people wouldn't touch leftovers. They'd become scared. We didn't get to grow up in that culture, but I see how it's so easily acceptable. Because I know so many friends who can't cook, won't cook. And I think there's a lot to be learned. When you know what went in [your food], it's not so scary. Eating with your eyes is important in restaurants when other people are feeding you. But eating with that knowledge becomes less important when it's your own cooking."